Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-10
heavy CLIPPING IN TIE NORTH CARO-.
LIZA AGRICULTURAL BUREAU.
The Agricultural and Mechanical College
Pound Dead-An Important
Decision.
Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l

scientific work az the State expermen
farm. This dispenses with the service
OF Milton Whitney, who he's been Il
charge OF the farm, and really suspend
ali operations there. Commissioner Rob
inson was asked by the board to live q
the fam and take charge of it. Hy mean
Of these sweeping reductions the boar
cut down its expenses for the comm.
/ yenr so az to make them come within
/ Sl8, 600, which sum is al that IS avail
able. Every sub-department IS more O
less crippled, but the reduction was in
/ ovitable.
The board adjourned at noon, and di
| rectly afterwards there was q meeting o
/ the trustees OF the Agricultural and Me
chanical College. Plans for the build
ings were submitted, and all arrange
monts were perfected for beginning
work next April. at the April meeting
OF the trustees all bids will be in readi
ness for the commencement OF work
The main building will be first con
stucted. II is to be of brick, 10 by 81
feet, three stories high, and will require
q million bricks, OF which half are ready.
It's cost will be $4,000, but, es quanti
ties of material are furnished free Of
cost, it is thus much less than it wOnld
be otherwise. Ordinarily, the building
would cost at least $4,000. The farm
Mt the college has been ploughed, ter
raced, and sown.
Enos Parker was found dead Wednes-
nesday in Sampson county. He had
been drinking. and was riding home.
His body was badly bruised, and there
are suspicious of foul play.
William 7. Bsnes's housc, in Wilson
county, has been burned, it is presumed
by an inccndiary. Barnes, who is sick
with consumption, was rescued at the
last moment.
Captain G. II. Latham, an ex-Confcde-
rate soldier, was found dead in his room,
at Wilson, yesterday.
Three prisoners-onc white and two
colored-have made their escape by cut
ting out of the rutherford county Jail
The Supreme Court Of this State has
in the case OF the State rs. Divine made a
very important decision, a law enacted
in 1880 declared that in twelve counties
(all along the line of the Carolina Central
rairoad) the president. receiver, and
superintendent Of any road, as well rs
the conductor in charge OF the train,
were all indictable in case Gny live stock
were killed by train, and that the mere
proof that the stock was so killed was
'prim0-jucje evidence that the killing
was due to negligence. A COW was killed
by a train, and under this law Major John
i. Divine, superintendent of road, was
indicted, though he was not on the train
and had no connection with the trans
action. He was convicted and appealed.
The Supreme Court declares that the
act OF 1889 is unconstitutional and in de-
fauce of the principles Of common law.
1t therefore decided in Major Diyincs
favor.
Tomorrow Sheriff Hahn, Of Craven
county, will go before the commissioners
to he indicted into the Office Of sheriff.
Sheriff Stunson was was sued by Hahn,
the latter claiming that he had received n
majority of votes for sheriff. The Superior
Court has Just decided that Hahn's
claim was well grounded, and that he is
entitled to the position.
A revival is in progress in the Presby-
terian church at PittsborO', conducted
by Rev. w. +. Thorn. who is assisted by
Rev. Mr.. Miller, of Greensboro.
Pound-net fishermen i'll the sounds are
of the scarcity of fish.
Gill-net fishing will not begin until after
the holidays.
Rev. j. T. Bagwell, formerly Of Win
ston, who some two years since was dis
missed both from the ministry and the
Methodist Church, is again licensed
preacher He has begun life over again.
He is an able man, aud certainly has a
number of friends.
1t is claimed that the people of Onslow
county will certainly vote the $4,000
to the railway from New
Jerne to Wilmington, which is TO pierce
heir county. The people are in state
Of great excitement over the coming
election, as ODslow has never had a rail
way.
The fair at Silver City, Chatham coun-
", was a success financially as in other
ways. The receipts pay all the expenses
md premiums. Great credit is due
President j. w. Perry and Secretary Z.
+. Mclean.
The Department Of Agriculture is
BADLY hampered for want of funds. It's
only dependence appears to be upon the /
Hatch law, which little legislation will F.
-ender operative. Work has been done I.
lere, as in other States, no donbt, under |.
he impression that the Hatch act viii /
become operative. The call upon Con- /
yress to enact the necessary legislation /
S urgent. That body is now asked to /
)ut the matter in the urgent deficiency .
ill. Governor Scales and the other .
members of the State Board of Agricul /
IRE have this mattervery much at heart. /
Il is the one way out of a difficulty.
The barn OF Mr.. ID. f. Stevens was /
ired and burned Tuesday night ty n
hief, who had first stolen a valuable
lorse from the stables and committed .
he crime Of arson to conceal that of
heft.
The reports so far received by 'the
of Public Instruction
how a considerable increase OF pupils in
he public schools as compared with
asst year
Pat Brewer, Frank Kirby, and Jesse
Iarris, the negroes convicted OF the
murder OF the young student, j. A.
'reeze, Of Rowan county, ut the State
in 1886, were brought to the
yesterday from Hillsboro'
Ill. They were convicted last spring
nd sentenced to long terms in the peni-
ontiary. They appealed to the Supreme
ourt for new trial, but that court last
eek confirmed the decision Of the
,wer court. Pat Brewer, the man who
red the shot which killed Freeze. gets
N years the others five years each.
Savings banks are such a success in
le State that it is probable a dozen will
g started under the general law with
! the next few months. Even small
laces like Sanford will have such banks.
INTERNAL REVENUE.